Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Man on Mars in this Decade?

In 1961 US
President John F Kennedy set NASA the task of landing a man on the moon before
the end of the decade and returning him safely to Earth. In July 1969 the world
saw this achievement on live TV... or the supposed
achievement, see: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/programme-120-podcast-marcus-allen-part.html.
If the Apollo 11 moon landing was real, then the round trip to the moon took
just over eight days. The problem with the layout of our solar system is that
after the moon there's no other major landing place close by. The nearest next
ones are hundreds of times further away. Venus is the closest planet to the
Earth and it is far too hot to land on; Mars is the next closest. Travelling to
Mars by rocket is perfectly possible and this has been done many times with
unmanned craft like Viking, Phoenix
and Curiosity. However, sending humans there is another matter; the
complexities of manned spaceflight compared to a probe mission aren't doubled,
they're squared. There would need to
be an independent life support system on board the craft which would need to be
far more sophisticated than any on an orbiting space station, which is supplied
by rockets from the ground. There would need to be a miniature farm onboard the
spacecraft to grow food, and all air and water would need to be recycled. The
crew could suffer health risks from cosmic radiation (not a problem during the
moon landings we're told); solar flares are powerful enough to kill even as far
away as Mars. Low gravity for long periods of time is also not good for human
health as astronauts on Mir and the International Space Station have found out.
Going to Mars would be a round trip of at least two to three years and nobody
knows what psychological effects this could have on the crew; but we know
sailors on board ships cut off from the outside world can lose their minds if
their voyage is too long. Also a manned mission to Mars will have to do what no
unmanned one ever has: include a return journey. The spacecraft must carry with
it the means for the first landers to get back to Earth, so they would need the
fuel, resources and hardware to do so. The concept of a manned mission to Mars
has been the basis of many science fiction stories over the years, yet the
first practical plans only date back to the 1950's. America,
the Soviet Union, and more recently China
and post-Soviet Russia
all have produced proposals for landing people on the Red Planet. However these
proposed missions are only just beginning to be taken seriously. The most
recent propositions though have an added twist of controversy because a lot of
them are "Mars to Stay".

"Mars to Stay" is a mission concept of a manned
landing on Mars with no return journey included. Astronauts on a Mars to Stay
mission would be heading to Mars to live there indefinitely, to build a
permanent human settlement on the planet and make it their home, possibly for
the rest of their lives. The advantages are that the difficulty and costs would
be greatly reduced by not having to bring the astronauts back to Earth.
Nevertheless they would have to be willing to leave everything they know and
love behind them, including never seeing friends or family again. It's always
possible that in the future a fully-developed transport infrastructure could be
built serving Mars and Earth before the end of a natural human lifetime, so
allowing the first generation settlers to return home if they wish, but that is
of course definitely not guaranteed. There have been many eager volunteers
though; plenty of people love the idea of being a Martian pioneer so much so that
they'd be willing to make that sacrifice. This kind of pioneer spirit has been
seen before; some of the first European explorers of the Americas
and Australia
were also on a one-way ticket. The Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin is one of
the loudest advocates for this kind of adventure, although he has not applied
to join up personally. There's a very good fictional story about a Mars to Stay
mission called the Mars Trilogy by
Kim Stanley Robinson, see: http://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/w/index.php5?title=Mars_trilogy.
One of the characters in the story changes his mind once he gets to Mars and
becomes very homesick for Earth, specifically where he lived in the south of France;
but by then it's too late. According to the marketing literature, a lot of Mars
to Stay projects claim to be in the advance planning stage, particularly Mars
One. This is a privately-funded enterprise based in the Netherlands
that proposes to send four people to Mars by 2025 to live there permanently. The
organization wants to launch the first rockets in 2018, just unmanned craft
carrying equipment and supplies for the future Mars colony; and then the actual
humans departing on a manned rocket in 2024, see: http://www.mars-one.com/. Almost three
thousand people initially applied; these have now been whittled down through
interviews and assessment to one hundred, the number who eventually travelled
in Robinson's fictional books. However in this case there will be just four
winners and they will be chosen out of that pool of one hundred. The Mars One
project is planning a reality TV extravaganza following the training and
competition of the selection process; eventually the series is intended to be
filmed on the spaceflight and in the colony itself on Mars. Among the one
hundred on the shortlist are five Britons including Hannah Earnshaw, a student
at DurhamUniversity.
She says she is doing it for the good of humanity; it's our next evolutionary
step, see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-31497486.
She is one of those who would agree to leave her home planet forever before she
reaches the age of forty. She might be the new Neil Armstrong, climbing down
the ladder, obviously with a new rehearsed "one small step..." slogan
to proclaim when she plants her foot on the ground (In Robinson's books this
was simply "Well, here we are."). There's just one small problem,
could the issues which led to the faking of the moon landings recur, or other
issues crop up?

These problems are diverse and many-fold, but I can arrange
them into four main categories. Firstly there are the matters that were
paramount in the decision to fake the Apollo missions, the hazards and
uncertainties of the endeavour: radiation risks, rocket malfunctions, other
unforeseen accidents, see: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/programme-120-podcast-marcus-allen-part.html.
These will all be increased by a massive factor on a space voyage to Mars. Secondly
there are secrets relating to Mars that the government know about and don't
want the rest of us to. We have already seen evidence of this in anomalous and
suspicious data that have emerged from the unmanned landings on Mars; this has
recently been discussed on the new series of Richplanet TV, see: http://www.richplanet.net/starship_main.php?ref=192&part=1.
Mars probably has indigenous life and NASA have already been sued for
attempting to suppress this revelation, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/nasa-sued-over-mars-anomaly.html.
There is a precedent for this because in 1959, at the dawn of the space age,
the Brookings Institute published a paper warning NASA that the discovery of
life out in space could have major psychological and cultural impacts on human
society. In the eventuality of life being found Brookings all but recommended a
cover-up. Whether or not life exists on Mars today is not the only quandary; if
it does exist then it's probably just simple single-cell organisms. However
there's evidence to suggest that Mars was once home to far more advanced life-forms
in the distant past. Structures have been photographed on Mars that appear to
be artificial, most famously the Face on Mars; this is just one object of
interest in an entire complex called Cydonia, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/skeptics-in-pub-18808.html.
There are many others that have emerged since. This is not as implausible as
the Skeptics will tell you. It's been known since the first probes went to Mars
that the planet was not always as dry and cold as it is today; long ago water
flowed on its surface. There were rivers, lakes and even oceans. This means
that back then Mars must have had a denser atmosphere and it must have been an
awful lot warmer; very similar to what Earth like today. Could life have
evolved on Mars that was as complex as that on Earth? Maybe an intelligent
animal species emerged that was capable of building such structures as Cydonia.
At some point a terrible cataclysm befell the planet, about four billion years
ago scientists reckon, maybe the emergence of Olympus Mons and the enormous
Tharsis volcanoes. This killed off almost all the life and turned Mars into
what it is today: dry, airless and freezing cold. But the constructions
remained and we can still see them today. For whatever reason, the authorities
are very keen to keep this a secret from the general public.

There are also Martian conspiracies of a more contemporary
kind, particularly the reality of intelligences present that are native to
neither Earth nor Mars. This is connected to the cagey attitude space
programmes have always had relating to the sightings of UFO's by astronauts in
space. From the first rockets to the Space Shuttle and ISS, astronauts have
seen things in space that simply should not be there and there has been both
official secrecy and a tacit cultural climate preventing them telling the
general public about it. In fact just a couple of months ago the Italian ISS
astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti saw an unidentified object while on a
spacewalk which made her exclaim aloud. A live TV feed was in progress and she
immediately was hushed into silence by her Russian colleague, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmRJPPDjuiA.
She was new on the space station at the time and clearly nobody had yet had the
chance to take her to one side and have a quiet word: "Samantha... erm...
there's a few things you need to know..." On a mission to Mars this
cover-up scam will be increasingly difficult to maintain, especially if the
Mars One reality TV show is transmitting. Also just a few days ago a mysterious
haze was spotted by astronomers in the Martian atmosphere; is this connected to
UFO activity? Could aliens have a base on Mars as some claim they do on Earth,
see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31491805?
If there are bases on Mars, are they all alien? And this brings us to the
fourth problem: the secret space programme. There's distinct evidence to
suggest that while the Cold War powers were building lumbering chemical rockets
to haul tiny capsules into low Earth orbit and send electronic monitors to the
planets, a secret space programme was underway in parallel that was far more
innovative and successful. Away from public scrutiny this did not waste time
with obsolete and dangerous rocket technology; it used free energy and
antigravity devices that had been developed in Nazi Germany and had also been
back engineered from the salvaged wreckage of crashed flying saucers. Several
witnesses involved in the covert space projects have spoken out, like Edgar
Fouche, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKcIO_Qmr9I.
Others have claimed that there are already human habitations on Mars and other
planets, see: http://exopolitics.org/whistleblowers-claims-he-served-17-years-at-secret-mars-military-base/.
This might sound like a far-fetched whimsy, but we must take into account the
volume of reports from the very credible whistleblowers who say NASA has edited
the presence of artificial structures out of its photographs taken of the dark
side of the moon, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtPDdqblwBQ.
If you have the abilities alleged by the secret space programme then why not
use them? If bases have been built on the moon then why not Mars too? Why not
elsewhere? These are the predicaments faced by those who wish to keep this
knowledge confidential while a private organization is preparing to send a
group of people to Mars, a planet that they assume nobody has ever set foot on
before, using existing rocket technology that will take a year or more to make
the trip and could easily kill them before they arrive. How do they think they
can keep up the pretence? It would be like sending the 16th century pilgrims
across the Atlantic in the Mayflower to the modern USA
and try to keep them convinced that they're in the North America
of five hundred years ago. What are you to say to the Mars One astronauts?
"When you get to Mars do you mind not looking at that bit?" For this
reason I suspect that Mars One will never get off the ground, nor will any of
its governmental, quasi-governmental or corporate sister projects. Either that
or the gatekeepers will pull another fake mission. The Apollo moon landings
happened before I was born, but now I'm alive and I'm ready for action if we're
shown any supposed "mission to Mars" on our TV sets during the next
few years. If there is any hint of fraud in progress depend on me to find out
and let you HPANWO-readers know.

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